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I often think about huge, fancy cloud setups literally costing silly money to run, being replaced by a single beast of a machine powered by a modern, high core
by justmarc 2y ago
I often think about huge, fancy cloud setups literally costing silly money to run, being replaced by a single beast of a machine powered by a modern, high core count CPU (say 48+), lots of RAM and lots of high performance enterprise-grade SSD storage.
- cjbprime 2y ago(Oftentimes part of the reason the huge, fancy cloud setup costs more is that any component can fail, all the way down to the region-level, without loss of service.)
- justmarc 2y agoAnd often times that loss of service, if temporary is not all that painful -- it really depends on the exact needs/use case/scenario. That said, sometimes The Cloud goes down too.